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Students

Clark Atlanta’s New Day-to-Day Leader Hopes To Smooth Tensions

Embattled Clark Atlanta University President Walter Broadnax, who has taken heavy criticism from faculty, students and alumni over his leadership of the school, has a new right-hand man to take over day-to-day operations. Dr. Carlton Brown, former president of Savannah State University, wants to improve the relationship between the administration and faculty and students in his newly created position that frees up Broadnax to do fund-raising.

July 23, 2007

Students

Group Files Complaint Against UT Over Race-Conscious Admissions

AUSTIN, Texas A legal group that fights against racial preferences in schools and workplaces has filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Education about the University of Texas at Austin’s use of race in its undergraduate admissions process.

July 23, 2007

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UCLA Report: Affirmative Action in Higher Ed ‘More Secure’ Now Than Before

In its recent decision to limit the use of race in assigning students to public schools, the U.S. Supreme Court justices made it clear that the earlier Grutter v Bollinger decision involving affirmative action in college admissions would stand. Gary Orfield said Monday higher education leaders should use that decision to strengthen their resolve against conservatives’ efforts to end race-conscious programs.

July 22, 2007

Native Americans

R.I. loses lawsuit casting doubt on Indian land trusts

PROVIDENCE R.I. Rhode Island authorities lost a lawsuit Friday disputing the federal government’s ability to take land into trust for American Indian tribes, a case Indian rights groups fear could undermine tribal land across the country.

July 22, 2007

Students

Dustup Over Racial Slur Comes at Delicate Time for Young Law School

PROVIDENCE, R.I. The law school at Roger Williams University is a relative infant among peers, opened less than 15 years ago and angling ever since to elevate its national profile and climb the rankings ladder.

July 21, 2007

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Edwards Touts Diverse Schools Plan in Fight Against Poverty

PITTSBURGH Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards on Tuesday called for measures to strengthen education for poor children and make schools more economically diverse in order to fight poverty in America.

July 18, 2007

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Despite Long Legal Fight, Woman Hasn’t Gotten $300K from Univ. Southern Mississippi

GULFPORT Miss. Anne Jordan waited nine years for her lawsuit against the University of Southern Mississippi to be tried in state court.

July 18, 2007

Students

Perspectives: Abandoning Brown and ‘[Race]ing’ Backwards on K-12 Education

The recent, well-publicized U.S. Supreme Court desegregation cases make it much tougher for school districts to achieve racial diversity and eliminate racially isolated public school systems. In addressing the use of race by Seattle and Louisville school districts in student assignments, Chief Justice John Roberts declared, “the way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.”

July 18, 2007

Latinx

Arkansas DWI Program Reflects Cultural Differences of Hispanic Offenders

BENTONVILLE, Ark. Emmanuel Flores says the court-ordered alcohol-safety programs he teaches require some modifications when the students who have been convicted of driving while intoxicated are Hispanic.

July 17, 2007

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As 50th Anniversary Approaches, Little Rock Central Desegregation Observed

LITTLE ROCK When Little Rock commemorates the 50th anniversary of Central High School’s desegregation, Annie Abrams hopes the city can create quite a contrast between now and 1957.

July 17, 2007

Students

High-Tech Cheating

With dozens of online term paper mills appearing on the Internet, professors and institutions are imposing new strategies to deter students from using them

July 15, 2007

HBCUs

The Shape Of 1998

“You’ve got to know the shape of the river perfectly. It is all there is left to steer by on a very dark night.” So begins Derek Bok and Dr. William Bowen’s new book, The Shape of the River, one of the first books to demonstrate the power of race-sensitive admissions practices. The former presidents of Harvard and Princeton universities evoke the image of Mississippi riverboat pilots winding through fogs, slow eddies, and hidden bluffs.

July 15, 2007